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05 Jun 2016, 7:12 pm

opening paragraph makes light of autism in Mark Zuckerberg story

This was the lede in an article about Facebook destroying Google's attempt to start a rival social network

Quote:
Mark Zuckerberg is a genius

Not in the Asperger’s, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie The Social Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That’s a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.


Offended?
My view is that the reporter put his opinion in about a topic that had no business bieng in that article. He is guilty of bieng careless not offensive.


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DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity.